“Alien: Romulus” director Fede Alvarez says he wants to take the sequel to his hit move to places the “Alien” franchise has never been before…
The success of “Alien: Romulus” — over $350 million earned at the box office — almost guaranteed that a sequel would happen and now director Fede Alvarez is hinting at his plans for that film.
As a lifelong fan of the “Alien” franchise, Alvarez and co-writer Rodo Sayagues took their sequel back to its roots with a sci-fi story dripping with tension and horror with a story sandwiched perfectly between the events of the original “Alien” and the iconic sequel “Aliens” from director James Cameron.
While Alvarez hasn’t fully cemented plans for the story in the followup, he says that he wants to take the next movie set in the “Alien: Romulus” universe in a different direction than just the typical sequel.
“Rodo and I are working on that right now,” Alvarez said about the sequel when speaking to Empire. “We’re excited about where it can go. We’ve almost checked all of the boxes of things that I want to see [in Romulus], and brought back a lot of the things I hadn’t seen in a while. Wherever we go now, we can go into uncharted waters.
“I think it’ll be so exciting to go with characters you know from this movie, to a place in the Alien franchise that we’ve never been before, and to discover things that you’ve never seen before.”
Alvarez teased that his plans for the “Alien: Romulus” sequel likely follow Rain — the lead character from the film played by Cailee Spaeny — who managed to escape the wrath of the deadly Xenomorphs in the film. Rain effectively wanted to escape a life of servitude on a planet ruled over by the evil Weyland-Yutani corporation, which led her and her friends to board the Romulus hovering in outer space in hopes of finding cryo-tubes that would allow them to sleep all the way to their dream destination.
Obviously plans went haywire when they realized that the Romulus was actually a scientific space station that housed a terrible secret — namely Weyland-Yutani’s latest attempt to harvest and weaponize the Xenomorph.
While the sequel to “Alien: Romulus” could go in any number of directions, Alvarez said he wasn’t interested in just doing a predictable film that wouldn’t offer any real surprises.
“The mistake usually with sequels is to make them because you can, and because of the success of Romulus, we definitely can make a sequel,” Alvarez said. “But I wouldn’t do it unless we have a really good idea for it, something that’s worthy of the title.”
Alvarez obviously has something cooking so stay tuned for more details as his plans for an “Alien: Romulus” sequel come together in the future.
